[ntp:questions] Slow convergence of NTP with GPS/PPS

Hal Murray hal-usenet at ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net
Thu Oct 23 18:30:11 UTC 2008


>>A good idea might be to find someone who would program GPS/PPS support 
>>for chrony. Many people would benefit from it. We also have a good 
>>programmer working with us and he is already looking into things..
>
>I keep thinking about it, but I am not a good programmer, and first one has
>to understand chrony well enough to start hacking it. What would be really
>nice is to install a glue layer so one could simply take the ntp refclock
>files and compile them into chrony. Unfortunately the ntp people did not
>isolate the refclock behaviour terribly well, but it should be relatively
>easy for a good programmer to write such glue ( chrony also has a
>reasonably well issolated glue to the server querying stuff)

Look at the shared memory stuff.

gpsd supports many GPS devices.

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